Descriptions and Prescriptions
Values, Mental Disorders, and the DSMs
Published on 25. June 2003
418 pages
978-0-8018-7683-7 (ISBN)
Description
Most everyone agrees that having pneumonia or a broken leg is always a bad thing, but not everyone agrees that sadness, grief, anxiety, or even hallucinations are always bad things. This fundamental disjunction in how disease and disorders are valued is the basis for the considerations in Descriptions and Prescriptions.
In this book John Z. Sadler, M.D., brings together a distinguished group of contributors to examine how psychiatric diagnostic classifications are influenced by the values held by mental health professionals and the society in which they practice. The aim of the book, according to Sadler, is "to involve psychiatrists, psychologists, philosophers, and scholars in related fields in an intimate exchange about the role of values in shaping past and future classifications of mental disorders."
Contributors: George J. Agich, Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Carol Berkenkotter, Ph.D., Michigan Technological University; Lee Anna Clark, Ph.D., University of Iowa; K.W.M. Fulford, D.Phil., F.R.C.Psych., University of Warwick, Coventry; Irving I. Gottesman, Ph.D., University of Virginia; Laura Lee Hall, Ph.D.; Cathy Leaker, Ph.D., Empire State College; Chris Mace, M.D., M.R.C.Psych., University of Warwick, Coventry; Laurie McQueen, M.S.S.W., American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C.; Christian Perring, Ph.D., Dowling College; James Phillips, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine; Harold Alan Pincus, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Jennifer H. Radden, D.Phil., University of Massachusetts; Doris J. Ravotas, M.A., L.L.P., Michigan Technological University; Patricia A. Ross, Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Kenneth F. Schaffner, M.D., Ph.D., George Washington University; Michael Alan Schwartz, M.D., Case Western Reserve University; Daniel W. Shuman, J.D., Southern Methodist University; Allyson Skene, Ph.D., York University; Jerome C. Wakefield, D.S.W., Rutgers University; Thomas A. Widiger, Ph.D., University of Kentucky; Osborne P. Wiggins, Ph.D., University of Louisville.
In this book John Z. Sadler, M.D., brings together a distinguished group of contributors to examine how psychiatric diagnostic classifications are influenced by the values held by mental health professionals and the society in which they practice. The aim of the book, according to Sadler, is "to involve psychiatrists, psychologists, philosophers, and scholars in related fields in an intimate exchange about the role of values in shaping past and future classifications of mental disorders."
Contributors: George J. Agich, Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Carol Berkenkotter, Ph.D., Michigan Technological University; Lee Anna Clark, Ph.D., University of Iowa; K.W.M. Fulford, D.Phil., F.R.C.Psych., University of Warwick, Coventry; Irving I. Gottesman, Ph.D., University of Virginia; Laura Lee Hall, Ph.D.; Cathy Leaker, Ph.D., Empire State College; Chris Mace, M.D., M.R.C.Psych., University of Warwick, Coventry; Laurie McQueen, M.S.S.W., American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C.; Christian Perring, Ph.D., Dowling College; James Phillips, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine; Harold Alan Pincus, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Jennifer H. Radden, D.Phil., University of Massachusetts; Doris J. Ravotas, M.A., L.L.P., Michigan Technological University; Patricia A. Ross, Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Kenneth F. Schaffner, M.D., Ph.D., George Washington University; Michael Alan Schwartz, M.D., Case Western Reserve University; Daniel W. Shuman, J.D., Southern Methodist University; Allyson Skene, Ph.D., York University; Jerome C. Wakefield, D.S.W., Rutgers University; Thomas A. Widiger, Ph.D., University of Kentucky; Osborne P. Wiggins, Ph.D., University of Louisville.
Reviews / Votes
Descriptions and Prescriptions is one of the best accounts of the intense debates on the values underlying the DSM, the need for accountability in psychiatric diagnosis, and some of the chief philosophical and political issues in psychiatry.-Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine Anyone who believes that developing the best diagnostic manual possible is an important and complicated task, and also wants to contribute to the process in a scholarly and reflective way, is well-advised to study these chapters.
-Peter Zachar, Metapsychology This is a stimulating book for healthcare professionals interested in the clarity and development of psychiatric diagnoses, and while most appropriate for the seasoned professional, it can be a useful stimulant to the advanced student in psychiatric healthcare professions.
-Doody's Health Sciences Review In particular, I believe this volume has explicit value for all who serve on a DSM-V committee, as well as those with an interest in nosology or medical sociology, those with a critical role in psychiatric education, or those who simply have a philosophical bent (a non-DSM character trait).
-Robert J. Van Den Bosch, M.D., Ph.D., American Journal of Psychiatry
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 s/w Zeichnungen
5 Line drawings, black and white
File size
17,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-7683-7 (9780801876837)
DOI
10.56021/9780801868405
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08/2002
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Person
John Z. Sadler, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Content
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction and Background
1. Introduction
2. The Limits of an Evidence-Based Classification of Mental Disorders
3. Values, Politics, and Science in the Construction of the DSMs
Part II: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations
4. Values and Objectivity in Psychiatric Nosology
5. Survival of the Fittest? Conceptual Selection in Psychiatric Nosology
6. Technical Reason in the DSM-IV: An Unacknowledged Value
7. Implications of a Pragmatic Theory of Disease for the DSMs
8. Rethinking Normativism in Psychiatric Classification
Part III: Diagnostic Categories and Values
9. Evaluation and Devaluation in Personality Assessment
10. Values and Validity of Diagnostic Criteria: Disvalued versus Disordered Conditions of Childhood and Adolescence
11. Implications of an Embrace: The DSMs, Happiness, and Capability
12. Why Criteria of Involuntary Action Are Value Laden
Part IV: Personal and Collective Interests
13. The Hegemony of the DSMs
14. What Patient and Families Look for in Psychiatric Diagnosis
15. Softened Science in the Courtroom: Forensic Implications of a Value-Laden Classification
16. Speaking Across the Border: A Patient Assessment of Located Languages, Values, and Credentials in Psychiatric Classification
17. Psychotherapists as Authors: Microlevel Analysis of Therapists' Written Reports
Part V: Visions for the Future
18. Clinical and Etiological Psychiatric Diagnoses: Do Causes Count?
19. Defining Genetically Informed Phenotypes for the DSM-V
20. Values in Developing Psychiatric Classifications: A Proposal for the DSM-V
21. Report to the Chair of the DSM-VI Task Force from the Editors of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, "Contentious and Noncontentious Evaluative Language in Psychiatric Diagnosis" (Dateline 2010)
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction and Background
1. Introduction
2. The Limits of an Evidence-Based Classification of Mental Disorders
3. Values, Politics, and Science in the Construction of the DSMs
Part II: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations
4. Values and Objectivity in Psychiatric Nosology
5. Survival of the Fittest? Conceptual Selection in Psychiatric Nosology
6. Technical Reason in the DSM-IV: An Unacknowledged Value
7. Implications of a Pragmatic Theory of Disease for the DSMs
8. Rethinking Normativism in Psychiatric Classification
Part III: Diagnostic Categories and Values
9. Evaluation and Devaluation in Personality Assessment
10. Values and Validity of Diagnostic Criteria: Disvalued versus Disordered Conditions of Childhood and Adolescence
11. Implications of an Embrace: The DSMs, Happiness, and Capability
12. Why Criteria of Involuntary Action Are Value Laden
Part IV: Personal and Collective Interests
13. The Hegemony of the DSMs
14. What Patient and Families Look for in Psychiatric Diagnosis
15. Softened Science in the Courtroom: Forensic Implications of a Value-Laden Classification
16. Speaking Across the Border: A Patient Assessment of Located Languages, Values, and Credentials in Psychiatric Classification
17. Psychotherapists as Authors: Microlevel Analysis of Therapists' Written Reports
Part V: Visions for the Future
18. Clinical and Etiological Psychiatric Diagnoses: Do Causes Count?
19. Defining Genetically Informed Phenotypes for the DSM-V
20. Values in Developing Psychiatric Classifications: A Proposal for the DSM-V
21. Report to the Chair of the DSM-VI Task Force from the Editors of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, "Contentious and Noncontentious Evaluative Language in Psychiatric Diagnosis" (Dateline 2010)
References
Index
